A 3D pen? How much does it cost? OT: Had a 3D printed robot model but I lost it afterwards. No pictures, sorry.
Yeah, but the rest is just garbage and not worth trying to fix. I may try again, and this time properly fill the parts so everything isnt hollow and use a higher resolution printer I now have.
Thats actually really cool --- Post updated --- I have a 3d printer work was getting rid of, an old BFB 3d touch with dual extruders, will mod it into a repstrap at some point as the default electronics are frankly crap whereas the extruders and carriage are pretty great. Also have access to works current printer which is one of the Form 2 SLA printers so it prints from a bath of resin with an insane resolution versus traditional filament printers, also handles overhangs much better. Theyre possibly getting an SLS printer too soon.
Huh... I also got a BFB 3000 that was just given to me... it also has dual extruders. I think mine is the Gen just before yours... does yours have weird printing errors? Mine seems to crap out on me if the text in the G code gets over 33 characters. Is that the real reason it has problems? Maybe... maybe not... I really am not sure... but I can use Curra to Generate code for it and as long as its small and in the center of the print bed, it prints just fine (because the coordinates are small) but as soon as one of the coordinates seems to use 1 too many digits... all hell breaks loose. Interestingly enough, I also have a Form 2 in my office at work... that thing is a dream for our company and in-fact, my boss is thinking about getting me another one. I actually have a small Halo Warthog that I got out of Horizon 3 that I printed out with it as a "test" to see how well it can handle details. Other than me damaging it when pulling it off the print bed, it printed beautifully. I will have to upload some pictures on here on Tuesday when I go back to work, so if anyone wants to see that, remind me on Tuesday.
Cura does have issues with these printers, two instructions in standard reprap GCode are swapped on the BFB controller I think and so Cura does generate incorrect gcode for these machines. I've been using Axon 3, had no luck getting Cura working with this machine, its why I am planning on switching for reprap electronics. The form 2 is fucking awesome. Its the Fuse 1 that some in my company were interested in looking at recently. On the Form 2 we've been able to print prototype parts fully interchangeable with their injection moulded production counterparts, something the BFB they had before (and I now have) lacked resolution to do.
If you do end up doing that conversion... I would love to know how you do it and do the conversion as well... I have had this printer for a while now and have done nothing but struggle to get it up and running. Like you said, its a solid printer... all the mechanical bits are pretty good quality, the extruder is pretty reliable, movements are smooth and precise... the build platform is a little shonkey... but all in all pretty good... it's just that dumb controller and its software. Anyways, here are a couple of things that I have printed with our Form 2 here at work. Halo Warthog... Forza Horizon 3 model... There is a bit of warping that occurred outside of the printer due to the uneven UV lighting that I have right now for curing. (the official UV station from Form Labs hasn't come in yet) That and some of the parts are broken or not all the support material was removed... that is because I have really fat fingers and shaky hands... not because the printer didn't print it right... heck, there was an antenna that was at the passenger rear corner that even printed (that I broke) This is a mechanical iris that I printed to limit the light on our comparator to reduce the glare. This... well... it's a Wankel... I kinda had to print this... And this is what we mainly use it for. We are a lathe shop that does powdered metal machining. What we can do with this printer is make prototype jaws for our lathes and actually mount them and run 3D printed parts on them to make sure that they will work before we get them made in metal. The turnaround time by most machine shops is 4 weeks for a new set of jaws and that can cost over $1000 for just one set. This way we can prove what we make will work and we can have them in hand and ready to test the next day for about $20. That printer paid for itself in the first 2 or 3 prints I did with it.
I plan to buy a 3D printer in the future so I can help the S12 community with offering replacements for broken parts in their cars, and also my own. Those are all 1 on 1 models with the real life thing. the vents took me about 22 hours to model in Autodesk Inventor. The Grille was just hell to make .
